Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Greece and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing China Crisis to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Ultra Naté,
Vainqueur,
Section 25,
Suicide,
Jerry's Kids,
Barry Ungar,
Eden Ahbez,
Agent Orange,
Inner City,
Scott Walker,
Lucky Dragons,
Marmalade,
Ohio Players,
Ice-T,
MDC,
ABC,
Throbbing Gristle,
Black Bananas,
Amazonics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pierre Henry,
Swans,
Anthony Braxton,
Joensuu 1685,
Spoonie Gee,
The Techniques,
the Human League,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Charles Mingus,
DJ Style,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
Au Pairs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Zapp,
Rekid,
Warren Ellis,
Robert Hood,
Mad Mike,
The Move,
The Wake,
Leonard Cohen,
Japan,
L. Decosne,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Royal Trux,
Soft Machine,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alton Ellis,
Q and Not U,
Neil Young,
Sound Behaviour,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Electric Prunes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yazoo,
Jacob Miller,
Youth Brigade,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.